To stop spiralling crises, the EU must focus its attention and resources where the concentration of humanitarian needs is greatest: the small handful of countries representing fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS).

Harnessing humanitarian action for long-term development impact.

For the EU to effectively tackle humanitarian crises, climate action and malnutrition must be at the top of its agenda and it must opt for proven solutions.

For the EU to effectively respond to the soaring scale of humanitarian aid, it must unlock new, innovative and much-needed sources of finance.

The EU must demonstrate leadership by forging a safe, orderly and humane approach to asylum and migration

With conflict remaining the primary driver of humanitarian need in far too many places, wars are increasingly fought with disregard for international law - with civilians bearing the brunt.